Composition for razor or other strops



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY A. PARKER, OF SI'IILOH, TENNESSEE.

COMPOSITION FOR RAZOR OR OTHER STROPS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 426,310, dated April 22, 1890.

Application filed December 23, 1889.

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY A. PARKER, of Shiloh, in the county of Montgomery and State of Tennessee, have invented a new and Improved Composition for Razor or other Strops, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My composition consists, substantially, of the following ii'igredients, combined in or about the proportions stated-viz., black-lead, one-quarter of a pound; putty, one ounce; sweetoil, one quart. These ingredients are to be well worked and thoroughly mixed together.

In using the above-named composition the same may be applied with a sponge or otl1er- Wise to the surface or surfaces of the strop, which should be of an absorbent character and present a fine exterior, cypress-Wood being preferred as the material of which to form the strop, and that when soaked. with the composition, as above, will put an exceedingly fine cutting-edge upon a razor or other edged tool or piece of cutlery sharpened upon the strop, the composition possessing and giving a fine abrading effect to the strop.

Used for sharpening razors, a strop having the above-named composition applied to it Serial No. 334,746. (No specimens.)

will be found superior to various whet-stones and strops now in use, and the razor will cut or work smoother and produce no irrira-tion upon the skin after shaving.

Properly applied to or soaked into the strop, the composition will but seldom or never need renewal as long as the strop lasts; but where the strop itself is made of suitable materialsuch as cypress-wood, for instance-it will remain permanent and even give an improved effect after long use.

The composition is not restricted to the. precise proportion of the ingredients herein named, as these may be more or less varied, and any oil which will serve the purpose of sweet-oil may be substituted for the latter.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The within-described composition for use in connection with razor or other tool sharpening strops, the same consisting of black lead, putty, and oil, substantially in the proportions specified.

HENRY A. PARKER.

Witnesses:

P. B. TAYLOR, WILLIAM P. ROWLAND. 

